Beijing Municipal Cultural Heritage Bureau is an organization directly under the People's Government of Beijing Municipality, which is in charge of Beijing's cultural relics and museum undertaking management. Its main duties are as below: 

1. To carry out and implement the national laws, rules, regulations and policies concerning cultural relics and museum undertaking, draw up the drafts of relevant local rules and government regulations, and organize the implementation of such rules and regulations; to work out the development programmes for cultural relics and museum undertaking, and organize the implementation; to be responsible for promoting and improving public service system construction of cultural relics and museums; to work out the public resources sharing programmes for cultural relics and museums, and promote the implementation.

2. To be responsible for managing Beijing's world cultural heritage and cultural relics protection institutions, work with relevant departments on the protection, supervision and management work of famous historical and cultural towns (townships and villages), and study and advise on the scope of protection and the construction of control belts of cultural relics protection institutions.

3. To guide the operation of municipal museums, organize inter-museum exchange and collaboration, and be responsible for managing the cultural relics appraisal, registration, lending, transfer and exchange of museum collections.

4. To be responsible for doing municipal archaeological studies, prospection and excavation; to work with relevant departments to explore ways of protecting underground archaeological remains and ruins; to be responsible for transfer of excavated cultural relics.

5. To be responsible for managing the non-governmental collection and circulation of cultural relics; to cultivate, guide and support the healthy development of industries related to cultural relics and museum sectors.

6. To be responsible for managing the audit, review and approval affairs regarding the municipal cultural relics and museums and relevant qualification recognition.

7. To be responsible for administrative law enforcement of the municipal cultural relics in accordance with the law, and organize to investigate and punish illegal and violation cases concerning cultural relics; to undertake the management responsibilities for security of cultural relics and museums.

8. To be responsible for dissemination of the municipal cultural relics protection; to organize exchange and exhibition events both domestically and overseas.

9. To plan and guide professional personnel training for the municipal cultural relics and museum sectors; to organize the research and exchange of cultural relics and museum sectors as well as protection of cultural relics in a scientific manner.

10. To perform other tasks which are assigned by the People's Government of Beijing Municipality.